Steve Miller Band Living in the U.S.A. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TybkYXx1FAQ

"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom." Milos Forman

"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism." Hermann Hesse

"Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable." George Orwell

@npub1dts9...6798 ~ I lost a whole cup of coffee over this.